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Thread #134827 Message #3069900
Posted By: frogprince
08-Jan-11 - 12:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: Adam and Eve, the Real Story
Subject: BS: Adam and Eve, the Real Story
Adam And Eve, The Real Story
As I was thinking about Young Earth Creationism, I got to thinking about Adam and Eve,
and Original Sin. In doing so, I suddenly realized, for the first time, the actual implications of the
Biblical narrative.
Soon after creating the ancestral pair, God remembered some of the implications of what He had
done, which He actually would have known throughout eternity past. He realized that, if He didn't
take action soon, they would become hopelessly accustomed to the comfort and freedom of
going about without a stitch of clothing on.
Obviously, this simply wouldn't do. God realized that, before long, they would observe numerous
instances of furry creatures doing all the things that furry creatures do. It would be inevitable that,
before long, they would get curious as to how it would feel to try some of those things themselves.
The inevitable result would be children. At that point, the situation would immediately become
untenable.
Children who are exposed to the sight of genitals suffer hopeless psychological damage, often
to such an extent that they must be destroyed for the safety of others. If our Puritan forebears
recognized this as clearly as they obviously did, how much more deeply must it have
troubled the mind of God himself. In fact, the very survival of mankind was at stake; any
decent man, to say nothing of one with a mind totally uncorrupted by sin, would kill himself
rather than allow a child to see his genitals.
God saw that it would be hard for Adam, with the innocent state of his mind, to understand
why he shouldn't be allowed to relax in the nude, skinny dip, and enjoy the sight of Eve
walking out of the river wet and glistening, or bending over to pick berries. So, to solve
the quandry, God contrived and staged the episode with the snake and the apple. While
it is true that, as a consequence, the majority of mankind will spend eternity in hell, that
is certainly preferable to the situation we would be in if He had not done so.